Having just had the priviledge of working with Drs. Henderson and Fenner
on an account of the history of smallpox and its eradication, the courage
of many in this crusade clearly stands out. But the one fact that is ever
embedded in my mind is that smallpox killed more people in this century
alone than from all the wars combined, by several times. It now only
exists in two laboratories, under lock and guard. Anyone so clearly
narrow as to avoid any cognition of the millions of lives saved by the
various similar programs deserves the fate; the children of same deserve a
wider prospective which looks at mankind as a whole, at least to some
degree.
Bill